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Jaroslav (Jarda) Cervenka was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he received degrees in medicine and genetics. He immigrated to Minnesota in 1968 in the wake of Russian invasion and was employed by the University of Minnesota as a Professor of Medical Genetics in the field of cytogenetics and dysmorphology, author of "Chromosomes in Human Cancer". Lived in Kenya, Japan and Nigerian and traveled extensively and intensively in five continents. His thinking and views were influenced mainly by studies of diverse people and their culture, or lack of one. Jarda Cercenka is the author of three collections of stories, "Mal d'Afrique", "The Revenge of Underwaer Man" and "Fausto's Afternoon", travel book for children and young adults "Travels of Missi One". Also published a book of photographs with text "It is Black and White". He is the recipient of Richard Sullivan Prize for Fiction, Minnesota Voices Award and The Franz Kafka Award from the European Circle Franz Kafka. Now retired, he and his wife Sasha live near their children Vojta and Tereza in Minneapolis, dividing their time between Florida Keys and Prague.

In this collection of short stories, the author takes readers from Chocu, the remotest jungle region of Colombia, to the infamous site of the Golden Triangle in Thailand, stopping along the way in Prague's Lesser Town, a village bar in Kamikawa, and Minneapolis.

It is [his] ability to concisely, and seemingly without effort, evoke the curious mix of deep delight and overpowering loss that is Cervenka's gift.-- Publishers Weekly